One of our poems was a project where we were supposed to take a feeling and correlate it to each of the five commonly accepted human senses, and a color. I don’t know why I wrote upset in connection with dark blue, since dark blue is actually a wonderful color. I’m not sure what I would rewrite it as in retrospect, though, so I’m just going to give you the original work from my 9-year old self. Enjoy! (Or don’t, since this is supposed to make you think about being upset.)
Upset
If upset was a color,
It would be as dark blue as the deepest parts of the ocean.
If upset was a taste,
It would be as sour as eating an entire jar of sauerkraut at once.
If upset could be seen,
It would be me in a dark room surrounded by homework.
If upset was a smell,
It would reek like rotten eggs.
If upset was a sound,
It would rumble like thunder.
If upset was a color,
It would be dark blue.
Upset
